Genre Essay Redraft



In this essay, I will explain how genre relates to the horror trailer I created over the summer holidays. Theorist Daniel Chandler says that the audience will be able to identify the genre based off of certain conventions present. My trailer does include this and an example of a convention that I used would be the mise en scene, particularly the costumes they wore. There was a character in the trailer that wore leggings, a long sleeve white top and glasses. The white especially is meant to represent purity and an innocent nature, and from this the audience would be able to infer that this is in fact the final girl character trope.

Theorist Altman says that there are a set ofmpleasures for the audience and that they are expecting certain conventions to make them like the film. Altman would argue that my trailer did not do this as one of the pleasures he came up with were visceral pleasures which are meant to give physical reactions to the audience. This could have been done by improving the editing and making it more fast paced in order to make the viewer feel much more on edge.

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